Fowler Junior High School

Fowler Junior High School operates as a very small 6-8 campus in FOWLER, Colorado, run under Fowler School District No. R4J. Current enrollment sits at 58 students spanning grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 462 students each, so Fowler Junior High School sits 87% leaner than that benchmark.

Fowler Junior High School is one of 3 schools operated by Fowler School District No. R4J, a district that works with 342 students overall.

On demographics, Fowler Junior High School records that 76% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 19% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

On the income-and-resources front, Fowler Junior High School shows 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 60% of students at Fowler Junior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Otero County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fowler Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.1%, the actual is 37.6%, a residual of +7.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Otero County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $54,037 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Otero County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,027 students), Fowler Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

Fowler Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Fowler Junior High School at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 29.3%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fowler Junior High School has held roughly steady, going from 58 students in 2018 to 58 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.